[jamesicus]

Derry, originally from Burnley, wrote:


..... I lived in Dugdale Road, just off Padiham Road .....

..... I went back recently to see the old house, and found the whole area developed in a rather unpleasnt way, as it had been semi rural in my childhood days .....


I had a similar experience -- the house where I was born -- 5 Duckett Terrace (off Accrington Rd. at the Railway bridge) in Burnley -- indeed the whole surrounding area, was long ago demolished for construction of a new roadway overpass. The house I lived in from age four until 1950 is now nothing like I remember it. As they say, you can never go back (to the way it was in your memory).